Abiquo Hybrid Cloud Management Platform is a web-based

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software platform developed by Abiquo. Written entirely in

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, it is used to build, integrate and manage public and private clouds in homogeneous environments. Users can deploy and manage servers, storage system and network and virtual devices. It also supports

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integration.

Hypervisors

Abiquo supports five

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systems. *

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* Citrix XenServer * Oracle VM Server for x86 * KVM From version 3.1, it also supports multiple public cloud providers: *

Amazon AWS Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Amazon that provides Software as a service, on-demand cloud computing computing platform, platforms and Application programming interface, APIs to individuals, companies, and gover ...

Rackspace Rackspace Technology, Inc. is an American cloud computing company based in Windcrest, Texas, an inner suburb of San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in Blacksburg, Virginia, and Austin, Texas, as well as in Australia, Canada, United ...

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Abiquo version 3.2 added: *

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Abiquo version 3.4 added: * Support for Docker hosts, adding multi-tenant networking, storage management and private registry management for Docker *

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* CloudSigma Later versions continued to add features including

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on any cloud, integration to VMware NSX and OpenStack

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for

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, guest config with cloud-init and integrated monitoring driving guest automation.

Storage services

Abiquo supports any vendor for hypervisor storage, and also supports tiered storage pools, enabling storage-as-a-service from specific vendors and technologies including: *NFS *Generic iSCSI *NetApp *Nexenta

SAAS version

In April 2014 Abiquo launched Abiquo anyCloud, a SAAS version of the Abiquo Hybrid Cloud Platform software. This version lets users manage public cloud resources from: *Amazon AWS *Microsoft Azure *IBM SoftLayer *

Open Cloud (an

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cloud) *HP Public Cloud (an OpenStack cloud) *

Additional security and process features include workflow, to have an enterprise administrator electronically sign off on changes, an audit trail of activity and the ability to share cloud accounts among and enterprise team in a secure way.

Reviews and awards

*Finalist for the 2015 Cloud Awards *Finalist for the 2015 UK Cloud Awards in the category Cloud Management Product of the Year *EMA Radar for Private Cloud platforms 2013 *Global Telecoms Business Innovation Summit and Awards 2013 (with

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) *EuroCloud UK Awards

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